Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed-it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor. --Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, United States Supreme Court...
...case of Hammer vs. Dagenhart, (Justice Holmes dissenting), the high court upheld the child labor restrictions of the Wage and Hours Act of 1938. The decision was long overdue and almost universally welcomed. But it should be received with an enthusiasm well-tempered by a realization that the evil of child labor is only indirectly and partially affected...
Officials stated that they had foreseen the raid and had carefully fastened all doors and windows, but the forces of evil easily overcame those impediments...
...crusading got them in Preachers Present Arms and The Road to War. No bellicose drum-beating marks their attitude now, but many a minister has reached a slow, sober decision that a just war may be less evil than an unjust peace...
...CASE OF THE SOLID KEY-Anthony Boucher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Evil deeds, some homicidal, in a Little Theatre group in Hollywood. Fergus O'Breen is a fairly amusing private detective, well up on his sodium fluoride. Quick and slick...